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# Understanding Variation in Start-Up Funds
# Emily M. Farris, Ellen M. Key, and Jane L. Sumner
# Replication data: Jane L. Sumner (jlsumner@umn.edu)


Data availability:

Our data cannot be made publicly available.

We have survey data from people who were at the time of data collection junior professors in political science that includes sufficient 
demographic information such that it is possible to deanonymize and identify individuals in our data, even if using only the variables
necessary to replicate our models. Some of our participants expressed concerns that being identified might lead to harrassment in the open 
comments section of our survey. We suspect others may have been less aware of this potential but still might be vulnerable. In particular, 
we are concerned about women, non-binary, and scholars of color who are frequent targets of such abuse. In order to successfully recruit 
respondents to volunteer sensitive and sometimes stigmatized information, we told subjects we would not include any information that would 
make it possible to identify them, which includes virtually all demographic information. 

We are able to make the survey itself available upon request, however, for anyone who wishes to replicate the survey itself, and thus recreate 
our study that way.

Human subjects:
This survey was approved by the University of Minnesota IRB (STUDY00008648).